Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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TABLE XXXII.
ANALYSIS of the Cases Treated by the District Medical Officers of the Parish during the Year ending December 31st, 1899.
Diseases. | Diseases. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
All Causes | 3,441 | 38 Congenital malformations | - | |
ZYMOTIC DISEASES. | 39 Old age | 138 | ||
40 Apoplexy | 6 | |||
1 Small Pox | Vaccinated | — | 41 Epilepsy | 28 |
Unvaccinated | — | 42 Convulsions | 1 | |
No Statement | — | 43 Other diseases of brain and nervous system | 141 | |
2 Measles | 36 | |||
3 Scarlet fever | 4 | |||
4 Typhus | — | 44 Diseases of organs of special sense | 14 | |
5 Relapsing fever | — | |||
6 Influenza | 175 | 45 Diseases of circulatory system | 177 | |
7 Whooping Cough | 27 | |||
8 Diphtheria | 9 | 46 Laryngitis | 2 | |
9 Simple, Continued and ill-defined fever | 10 | 47 Bronchitis | 918 | |
48 Pneumonia | 37 | |||
49 Pleurisy | 21 | |||
10 Enteric fever | 29 | |||
50 Other respiratory diseases | 22 | |||
11 Simple cholera | - | |||
12 Diarrhoea, Dysentery | 102 | 51 Dentition | 4 | |
13 Remittent fever | — | 52 Quinzy sore throat | 34 | |
14 Hydrophobia | — | 53 Enteritis | 20 | |
15 Glanders | — | 54 Peritonitis | - | |
16 Cow pox and effects of vaccination | - | 55 Diseases of liver | 22 | |
56 Other diseases of digestive system | 169 | |||
17 Venereal affections | 18 | |||
18 Erysipelas | - | |||
19 Pyæmia and Septicaemia | 1 | 57 Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless glands | 11 | |
20 Puerperal fever | 1 | |||
21 Tabes Mesenterica | - | |||
22 Tubercular Meningitis | - | 58 Diseases of urinary system | 31 | |
28 Phthisis | 125 | |||
59 Diseases of generative system | 32 | |||
24 Scrofula, Tuberculosis | 12 | |||
25 Other Zymotic diseases | 13 | 60 Accidents of childbirth | 4 | |
DISEASES OTHER THAN ZYMOTIC. | ||||
61 Diseases of locomotive system | 135 | |||
26 Thrush | — | 62 Diseases of integumentary system | 56 | |
27 Worms and other parasitic diseases | 1 | |||
28 Starvation, want of breast-milk | 1 | VIOLENCE.—Accident. | ||
29 Alcoholism | 17 | |||
30 Rheumatic fever and Rheumatism of heart | 20 | 63 Fracture and contusion | 24 | |
64 Gun shot wounds | — | |||
65 Cut, stab | - | |||
31 Rheumatism | 267 | 66 Burn or scald | 4 | |
32 Gout | 41 | 67 Poison | 1 | |
83 Rickets | 1 | |||
68 Drowning | — | |||
34 Cancer | 18 | |||
69 Suffocation | — | |||
35 Other constitutional diseases | 53 | |||
70 Otherwise | 58 | |||
36 Premature birth | — | |||
37 Atelectasis | — | 71 Other Causes | 355 |